polpette

Polpette al grasso di Marco

2010

His auto-cannibalistic happening to be understood as critical-ironic commentary on Western consumer society and the culture of eating, while at the same time placing it in the context of a gluttonous art world with its constant demand for something new; with this work, the art market is offered the ultimate possibility to directly incorporate an art work: "Eat me, I am art, and the art devouring public will finally be satisfied." By canning what was once part of his body as consumable and the declaration of unique traces of his own body as commodity, aesthetic art consumption is transformed into an anthropophagic devouring of art in the sense of devouring, annihilating, destroying. In so doing, cannibalism, which in Western thought is traditionally attributed to the primitive and other, is revealed as a cultural cannibalism in our own culture and in ourselves.